SHORT READ: What Shakespeare Can Teach Mark Cuban About Being A Better Boss

[Ryan Goble]

Author Stephen Greenblatt devotes a chapter of his fine new book, Tyranny: Shakespeare on Politics, to enablers – without whose participation tyrants could not function. Explaining the titular character of his Richard III, Greenblatt writes, “The achievement [of his throne], Shakespeare suggests, depended upon a fatal conjunction of diverse but equally self-destructive responses from those around him.”

According to Greenblatt, Richard’s enablers were one of the following types: those who were naïve to his evil, those who feared him, those who “normalized” his bad behavior, those who believe he can be managed, those who could “take advantage of” him, and finally those who went along “to avoid trouble.”

Using Shakespeare to lay bare the vicissitudes of bad behavior is instructive because the Bard as dramatist keenly explored the human condition and for that reason is an excellent resource for clues to the human psyche.

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